Monthly Archives: July 2011

Machen Day 2011

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 28, 2011

I am not sure if our favorite PCA blogger had J. Gresham Machen’s birthday in mind when he posted a piece on the fortunes of Machen’s kind of confessionalism within the PCA, but it was good preparation for today’s festivities. The same goes for Westminster Seminary California which has released Scott Clark’s interview with me… Read More→

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Young, Restless and Lutheran?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 26, 2011

If you read Collin Hanson’s book on the young Calvinists you will discover that of Dort’s five points the young and restless ones affirm at most two of the five. You will also see that what drives young Calvinists has less to do with the five points of Calvinsim than with one big point –… Read More→

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Kingdom Sloppy: A Big Bowl of Wrong

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 22, 2011

Readers of Oldlife may think I am too hard on Kuyper and neo-Calvinism. I know of one reader and commenter who regularly replies that I am just pointing out errors but that neo-Calvinism in its purity is — well — pure. Another respondent has admitted to some flaws along the way but nothing inherently erroneous… Read More→

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Kingdom Sloppy: Michele Bachmann and Her Interpreters

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 20, 2011

Mollie Hemingway, our favorite Lutheran journalist, over at GetReligion has alerted readers to a Lutheran slur against Michele Bachmann (who grew up in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod — who knew? — which is a communion to the right of the Missouri Synod). Mollie herself does not think much of Lutheran theology stuck with Michele:… Read More→

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Kingdom Sloppy: Southern Baptists and Immigration Policy

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 19, 2011

‘Tis the season of thinking about the relations between evangelicalism and political conservatism thanks to the release of From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin. With such heightened sensitivity come examples that show fuzziness on the differences between the kingdoms of redemption and providence. I begin with the reaction of Jerry Salyer to the recent Southern… Read More→

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Why Do Reformed Think They Are Evangelical?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 18, 2011

If Reformed Protestantism is basically evangelical then how do you account for the major divisions that have occurred among American Presbyterians? The fundamentalist controversy apparently has nothing at stake for the Reformed/evangelical consensus since Machen and other conservative Presbyterians were fighting liberalism and EVERYONE knows that liberalism is bad. (Of course, the problem here is… Read More→

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Why Does Mahaney Get More Slack Than Nevin?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 14, 2011

The answer appears to be that if you I have spoken at conferences with C.J., shared a meal with him after one of those sessions, or sung Sovereign Grace Music songs on stage with him, then it is possible to stand in the gap with C.J. in the current difficulty that SGM is experiencing. But… Read More→

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When Private Goes Public

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 13, 2011

(TMI Alert!) Last Sunday my wife and I were publicly received by the OPC congregation in Hillsdale, Michigan. The reception took place during a public worship service on Sunday morning. Despite all the public matters transpiring, very few people noticed. Aside from members of session who decided to receive us by letter of transfer, the… Read More→

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Trueman on Protestant Urbanism

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 12, 2011

Like the moth drawn to the candle flame, I will once again comment on the apparent discrepancies of Carl Trueman, the Lord Protector of Westminster Seminary, whom I hope will not do to me what happened to Charles I. What has to be striking to many readers is that Trueman is critical of many of… Read More→

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Not Nevin or Edwards but Kuyper is the Answer

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 11, 2011

Nelson Kloosterman has a blog and is using it to promote the thought of Abraham Kuyper among other topics neo-Calvinistic. No surprise there. Admittedly, Kuyper, the Reformed transformer-of-all-trades, master of none, was an impressive figure and blessed with much sound and wise counsel about a variety of matters with which contemporary believers wrestle. If Old… Read More→

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